Author Archives: J.P. Donlon

THORNS They have strange sports brackets in Ithaca, New York. JOSEPH SCAFFIDO, assistant dean for students at Cornell University, was captured on a Project Veritas hidden camera advising a journalist how to start a pro-ISIS and pro-Hamas club on campus. He also advised how to obtain funding to have a member of ISIS run a “training camp,” astonishingly equating the latter to “bringing in a coach to do ...

As complex organizations go, there are few companies with as many moving parts as Boeing, which Jim McNerney has transformed since he became CEO in July 2005. McNerney also successfully overcame challenges at 3M and GE to become one of the U.S.’s most respected business leaders. After dealing with the air-pocket concerning the Dreamliner, he has been on a smooth flight path for the world’s biggest producer of aircraft and the nation’s largest exporter.

Members of the 2015 Chief Executive of the Year Selection Committee faced a challenge choosing among an impressive list of finalists. In the end, they selected Boeing's Jim McNerney. Comments from each of the judges follow.

In our 11th annual survey of CEOs, Texas and Florida still dominate as the top two states for business, while California and New York continue to hold onto their traditional death grip as the worst and second worst states respectively.

Jack and Suzy Welch, the original power couple, were in New York recently appearing on the Today show in the morning and CNN and CNBC in the afternoon promoting their new book, “The Real Life MBA: Your no-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career.”

“There is no one in the world like Marissa Mayer,” writes Nicholas Carlson in his book, Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo. In covering Yahoo for Business Insider, Carlson discovered that the demand for stories on this Wisconsin-born former Google executive, who once aspired to be a schoolteacher, was almost insatiable. He admits that he was equally fascinated by her, so he wrote a book about her and the predicament she faces in reviving one of the Internet’s earliest start-ups. In this Q&A with Carlson, JP Donlon walks through the findings in his book and Carlson's opinions of what is going right and what's going wrong at Yahoo.